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Pacific Railroad kept the locomotives; Samuels remained committed to a railroad museum in Portland and had a proposal for such a museum to be
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Pacific Railroad. Although the SamTrak trains no longer run, the Oregon Pacific Railroad has hosted excursions using the
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and added it to the train. Riding in the cupola of the caboose cost an extra dollar.
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